Date: June 11 - 16, 2010
Venue: Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture,
Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
DAY 1: JUNE 11 (FRIDAY)
14:00-14:30 Registration
14:30-15:00 Opening Remarks
- Lim Jie-Hyun (Hanyang University, Korea)
Welcome Address
- TBC / Chong Yang Kim (President, Hanyang University, Korea)
Congratulatory Remarks
- TBC / Young Ahn Kang (National Research Foundation of Korea)
15:00-16:15 Keynote Speech
- Sakai Naoki (Cornell University, USA)
16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
CONFERENCE
16:30-18:30 Session 1: De-regionalizing Regions
Chair: TBA
1. “Asia” in Chinese Reactions to the Great War - Seen From Transnational Perspectives
- Dominic Sachsenmaier (Duke University, USA)
2. Fractured Unity: The Making and Unmaking of Borders and Their Transnational Dynamics
in Modern Europe
- Bernhard Struck (University of St. Andrews, UK)
3. Economic Crisis and the Urgent, Everyday Experience of Region: Lessons from the Most
Marginal Places
- Dennis Galvan (University of Oregon, USA)
Discussant: Michael Schoenhals (Lund University, Sweden)
19:30 Welcome Dinner
DAY 2: JUNE 12 (SATURDAY)
10:30-12:30 Session 2: Dynamics of “in-between” Regions
Chair: TBA
1. East Central Europe: Challenge or Eldorado for Doing Transnational History?
- Frank Hadler (GWZO, Universität Leipzig, Germany)
2. Sayyid Hussein Story: Hami Muslims and the Frontier Perspective on the East Asian World
- Kwangmin Kim (University of Colorado-Boulder, USA)
3. Asian-German Studies: Methodology, Theory, and Practice
- Young-Sun Hong (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Discussant: Seung Mi Han (Yonsei University, Korea)
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:45 Session 3: Counter-memories of Regions
Chair: TBA
1. Regions and Regionalism in the Historical Culture of the Third Reich
- Peter Lambert (Aberystwyth University, UK)
2. Mass Murder by Mosquito: The Yaeyama Malaria Reparations Campaign, 1989-1977
- Alan Christy (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA)
3. “Asia” as a “relational” concept from the perspective of Japanese Marxist Philosophers:
Hiromatsu Wataru, Miki Kiyoshi, and Tosaka Jun
- Nakajima Takahiro (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Discussant: Mitani Hiroshi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Session 4: Reimagining Regions
Chair: TBA
1. 1884, Before Asia
- Stefan Tanaka (University of California-San Diego, USA)
2. Network, Identity and the State: Explaining the Dynamics of Transnational Asia and a
Rising China
- Hong Liu (University of Manchester, UK)
3. What is Wrong with the Alternative Modernities Thesis?
- Brett Neilson (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Discussant: Daqing Yang (George Washington University, USA)
DAY 3: JUNE 13 (SUNDAY)
CURRICULUM
I. Problematizing Regions and Regionalization
09:45-11:15 Lecture and Q&A
- Alan Christy (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Lecture and Q&A
- Matthias Middell (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Student Seminar & Discussion
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Student Presentation & Feedback
18:00- FUTH Steering Committee Meeting
DAY 4: JUNE 14 (MONDAY)
II. Rethinking Regions and Regionalization: Transnational Perspectives
09:45-11:15 Lecture and Q&A
- Lim Jie-Hyun (Hanyang University, Korea)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Lecture and Q&A
- Stefan Tanaka (University of California-San Diego, USA)
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Student Seminar & Discussion
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Student Presentation & Feedback
DAY 5: JUNE 15 (TUESDAY)
III. Towards Reflexive Regionalization?
09:45-11:15 Lecture and Q&A
- Dennis Galvan (University of Oregon, USA)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Lecture and Q&A
- Brett Neilson (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:45 Student Seminar & Discussion
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Student Presentation & Feedback
DAY 6: JUNE 16 (WEDNESDAY)
10:00-11:45 Wrap-Up Roundtable Discussion
11:45-12:00 Closing Remarks
- Lim Jie-Hyun (Hanyang University, Korea)
12:00 Adjournment
13:00- Optional Tour (“Borderless Village” in Wongok-dong, Ansan, Gyeonggi-do)